Waves

Text is excerpts from the "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu. This edition was translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English, and published by Vintage Books, New York, 1972

The music was created at the home studio of David New on his synthesizer.

Mark Stevens was the camera man and we shot the waves from the end of the Long Beach Pier. As we were carrying the equipment back to the car, a man spied Mark carrying the tripod and cheerfully asked, "Catch anything?" Mark just shook his head and smiled and said, "No. Not tonight." And the man said, "Well, better luck next time."

For the effects processing, I rented time at the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Annex . It was a very exciting experience to work with the Technical Director and create the right look, from all the different possibilities.

I like this video because it is only one single shot. It was real easy to edit.

Video copyright (c) 1987 Wm Schaeffer